Jenkins emailext plugin with default subject and body in pipeline script

[David Koenig]

i am using Jenkins with the email extension plugin and declarative pipelines. In https://jenkinsserver/configure i configured the "Default Subject" and "Default Content" with some variables and nice looking content which i want to use in a pipeline script.
When i add the following code to a pipeline script, everything works perfectly fine.

    post {
            always {
                emailext (
                    to: 'm...@my.dom',
                    replyTo: 'm...@my.dom',
                    subject: "foo",
                    body: "bar",
                    mimeType: 'text/html'
                );
            }
        }

So technical, everything is working perfectly. But i don't want to specify something in the pipeline script, everything should be done with the data specified in the global configuration. When i remove everything and just call `emailext ();` it failes with the comment that subject is missing. What can i do to work with default values specified globally?

Regards

Dave

[Slide]

Hi Dave,

Email-ext works on the idea of macros. When you define the default subject in the global config, it sets the value of a macro that you can then use in your job config. If you want to get the value you set, you have to use the macro for it.

subject: '$DEFAULT_SUBJECT'

This is the same with the other items as well. 

You could wrap this into a shared library so that it's just a simple call to do everything you want.

Regards,

Alex

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[David Koenig]

Hi,

sorry for the late response, i was away a few days.

i am new to jenkins, so please forgive me to ask some silly questions. Did i understand this right? It doesn't work directly out of a Jenkinsfile? I tried

emailext (
                to: 'mym...@my.dom,
                replyTo: ' mym...@my.dom',
                subject: $DEFAULT_SUBJECT,
                body: '<b>testb</b>test<i>testi</i><p>new area</p>',
                mimeType: 'text/html'
            );

and get the error message

groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: $DEFAULT_SUBJECT for class: WorkflowScript

Regards

Dave

[Slide]

The quotes I had in my example are important, you need single quotes so that Groovy (which pipeline is built on) does not try and interpolate the variable (as you have seen, it doesn't exist in the groovy context).

emailext (
                to: 'mym...@my.dom,
                replyTo: ' mym...@my.dom',

                subject: '$DEFAULT_SUBJECT',

                body: '<b>testb</b>test<i>testi</i><p>new area</p>',
                mimeType: 'text/html'
            )

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[David Koenig]

Hey man,

again what learned. Thank you so much, you saved my day.

regards

Dave

Am Mittwoch, 5. August 2020 17:12:38 UTC+2 schrieb slide:

The quotes I had in my example are important, you need single quotes so that Groovy (which pipeline is built on) does not try and interpolate the variable (as you have seen, it doesn't exist in the groovy context).

emailext (
                to: 'mym...@my.dom,
                replyTo: ' mym...@my.dom',
                subject: '$DEFAULT_SUBJECT',
                body: '<b>testb</b>test<i>testi</i><p>new area</p>',
                mimeType: 'text/html'
            )

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